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The clinical evaluation involves history taking, physical examination, and the communication between physician and patient. It is a data gathering and utilization process designed to deliver the best overall outcome for the patient. Important components include utilization of history and physical examination to generate a differential diagnosis with associated pretest probabilities, assessment of potential benefits and risks of different management pathways, and appreciation of important patient-centered factors, e.g., preference, motivation, and cost. This chapter is designed to provide tools for evaluating the sleep clinical evaluation. The instruments designed were history and physical examination checklist, recall matching answer sets, essay questions, summative essay questions, IQ case discussion, and lecture.
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Ramsey, R., Khanna, A., Yamauchi, M. (2014). Clinical Evaluations of the Patient. In: Competencies in Sleep Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9065-4_7
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